Wasting more than 40 percent of your work time

Imagine spending more than 40 percent of your time doing work that meant nothing.

That’s what the city’s traffic ticket writers have been doing: They’ve written “ghost” ticketson cars with the now-infamous bull’s eye stickers that meant the driver had to pay no fine. That news came out of a Common Council caucus covered by my colleague Cathleen Crowley. (Sorry, the vast alliteration was unintended.)